Boats Were Made of Wood and Men Were Made of Iron

<p>"Now, God be praised, I die in peace!"  -James Wolfe</p> <p>"I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec."  -Louis-Joseph de Montcalm</p> <p>"Of the mother I was ten times more afraid than I ever was of my own parents."  -George Washington's schoolmate on George's mother</p> <p>George Washington had four bullets through his coat and two horses shot out from under him.  And that was before he ever got to the Revolution.</p> <p>George Washington was not offered permanent service in the British military because the latter hired and promoted on the basis of nepotism.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>